Fran and Patti McMahon of Toms River take a break from their adventures at the Salvador Dali house at Port Lligat near Cadaques, Spain.

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My wife, Patti, and I had the good fortune to travel to Spain, Provence in France, and England recently and actually lived to tell about it.

My pocket was picked on the Barcelona subway, a Frenchman backed into our rental car in the walled city of Avignon, I had food poisoning in France, our car was almost totaled by a garbage pail on the Costa Brava, and - for the grand finale - we were stranded in London because of a superstorm named Sandy. Boy, did we have a good time!

1. The pickpocket incident: I was definitely forewarned about Barcelona's being the pickpocket capital of the world. How could a ...